Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-05

Dan DeQnsU an S. l., Tribune.

CLASS.
The death of the two old miners, Jos.
Perry and Robert Price, in Philadelphia
on the 18th inst, of starvation though worth
pair of misers who died at Reading, Eng
land, in ITS. They were two brothers, old
bachelors, nemed Jackson. John was
aged 80 at his death, and James 81. They
were rich at twenty years of age and died
worth $4,000, an immense sum at that
time. They lived in the village of Read
ing for so years as poor men, denying
themselves the common necssaries of life
and accepting the charity of neighbors.
They lived in a single DON which they
never suffered mar or woman to enter.
Both were taken i'll about the same time,
fingered a few days and died within the
same hour. It was not until they were
dead that their great wealth was discoy-
cred. 1t does not appear that the brothers
Jackson starved themselves to death, as
the misers of Philadelphia are supposed
to have dons, but it is ON record that they
were not addicted to "gormandizing." The
two cousins were aged respectively IS and
"a. The ages of this quartette of misers
foot up 800 years. 1t is noticeable that
most misers live to be very old. As neither
| poor and filthy lodgings nor insufficient
clothing is conducive to long life it must
be that they owed their length of years to
their moderation in feeding. With com-
Portable clothing, good lodgings and a
| moderate diet of wholesome food these
fellows would probably live to the age of
100 years or more.
| THE BUFFALO TO FOLLOW THE MAsToDoN.
William T. Hornaday, chief taxidsrmist
of the National Museum at Washington,
last month returned from a buffalo hunt
in Montana, the object of which was to
secure a supply of skulls, skeletons, and
skins of the animal in view Of its probable
| speedy extinction. He and his party Sc
cured twenty-five specimens. Ha says the
expedition was just in the nick of time,
and asserts that there are now only about
100 buffalos in Texas, not. many more than
| sixty in the Yellowstone divide, none at
all to the north of that region. He says
| a large herd went north in 1888 and has
never been seen or heard of since. If this
be true the buffalo will soon be but a ira
dition, as the mastodon now appears to be
among the Indians. The Indians in Idaho
and Montana think that at times the buffalo
go into caves somewhere in the mountains
and remain there for an indefinite length
oftime. Not long since there was great
rejoicing among them at finding a huge
and venerable bull which they supposed
had come out of a subterranean hiding
place. The Indians expected that the old
bull would soon be followed by great
herds.
The Piute Indians Of Nevada have ira
ditions Of the buffalo going into caves.
They say that they go into the caves to see
the old king buffalo, an animal larger
than a dozen of the ordinary kind. One
of thec caves into which the buffalo retired
was in Humbolt county, and they say that
a long time ago they killed the old king
that belonged there. He got fast in a bog
somewhere on the Humboldt river, when
many braves of the tribe gathered about
and killed him. They also tell about huge
animals that long ago roamed about Pyra-
mid Lake and much damage by tearing
down the trees in the nutpine orchards.
1.-The last herd of these they drowned by
surrounding them and driving them into
the lake. These traditions seem to point
to the mastodon or some other huge beast
of the kind. It was probably a furred ami
NAL, as was the mastodon of Siberia, and
for thissreason is spoken of by the Indians
as being a big buffalo-the king Of all the
buffalo herds, and so on. This ancient
beast probably frequented such caverns as
it was able to enter and it is likely that
from this came the notion held by all the